El mar, 04-11-2008 a las 10:10 -0500, Adam Jackson escribió:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:01 -0800, William Lovaton wrote:
> 
> > My hardware is a Dell XPS M1210 laptop ICH7 chipset with an Intel
> > T2400  @ 1.83GHz.  I am using Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 10) with the
> > latest updates and kernel 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686.
> 
> Can you try this build of the X server?
> 
> % koji download-build xorg-x11-server-1.5.2-12.fc10
> % sudo rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-server-*
> 
> There's an incredibly lame bug in the tty driver, where if you put it in
> raw mode but then never read from it, eventually the kernel's event
> queue fills up and triggers a wakeup storm trying to enqueue the events.
> Hilarity ensues.  Opening the tty O_WRONLY has no effect, the kernel
> kindly queues up input events you will never possibly read just in case
> you change your mind.
> 
> That build of the X server has a workaround that just tcflush()s the fd
> whenever it's got data to read.  I've submitted a releng ticket, should
> be fixed by F10 gold.
> 
> - ajax

Sorry for the late response on this.  I installed the new X server
through the normal Fedora Rawhide updates and I don't see this problem
anymore.  I have been running it for a good while and everything seems
fine now.

Thanks a lot for your help.

-William



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